Peanut-picker.



'I'. M. LILLISTON. PEANUT PICKER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 22. 1911.

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Patented Feb. 13, 1912.

T. M. LILLIS'ION.

PEANUT PICKER. APPLIGATIQN FILED MAY z2. 1911.

Patented Feb. 13, 1912.

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PEANUT PICKER. APPLIGATION'HLED MAY 22. 1911.

Patented Feb. 13, 1912.

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APPLIOATION FILED MAY 22,1911.

Patented Feb. 13, 1912.

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PEANUT PIGKER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22, 1911` Patented Feb. 13` 1912.

i specification, reference THOMAS MILICUT LILLISTON, OF SUFFGLK, VIRGIINIA.

PEANUT-PICKER.

Y.To all 'whom 'it may concern:

'Be it known that I, THOMAS Minions" LU Lis'roN, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Suffolk, .in the county of Nansemond and State' of Virginia, have invented certain newv and useful Improvements in Peanut-Pickers, of which the following is a' the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to 'machines for separating peanuts from the vvines and for removing the dirt therefrom, cutting the stems from thenuts and delivering the peanuts picked, stemmed, aridcleaned into suitable receptacles with the vines separately delivered for use as cattle' feed.

The invention has lf'or its object 'to provide an improved Vmachine' of this kind constructed and arranged l as l'iereinafteil Vset forth and claimed. v

' 4Referring to the accompanying dravvings Figure 1 is a side View of a machine for separating peanuts from the vines which is constructed in accordance with this invention.l Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a view in longitudinal section of the machine. Fig. 4 is a side-view of the machine on the opposite side from that shown in Fie'. 1. Fig. is an enlarged View in cross section thereof. Fig. 6 is a detail end view of the rotary cylinder for sepe-V rating the stems from the peanuts and cleaning the same. Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail` view in vertical section of a portion of the cylinder for removing the stems and a. portion of the device for cutting ot the stems. Fig. 8 is a detail lvievv in perspective of a portion of the periphery of the cylinder for separating the stems from the peanuts.

On the upper part of the framedL of the machine which is mounted'on Wheels is an endless belt 2 which extends 4over toothed Wheels 3 on the frame l and is provided with transverse slats located apart from each other, each of the slats't being provided with a row of vert-ical pins 5, preferably of irregular length, the several parts being more particularly shown in. Figs. 2, 3, and 5, and located at intervals apart from end to end of the top of the frame of the machine are transverse bars 6 each having a row of depending spring like projections 7 which are located at intervals between the pins 5. Mounted above and extending transversely to the bars 4 are several iron rods 8 specification of Lenen raeent.- Application filed May 22, 1911. Serial No. 628,098.

being had therein to v toothed pulley by to the ground.

chute 24 to a chamber 25 Pai-.eased ses. '13, 191e.

which from end to end are of an undulating shape and which` coperate with the pins 5 i and the depending spri'n like rojections? to separate the peanuts ron t e vines.

Below the top flight of the endless belt 2 provided a Wire netting 9 secured ben eath the transverse slats 4. Located at the rearV end of themachine and at the end of theend-less 'belt 2 is a hopper 10 onwhich the vines which have been dug up are fed tothe endless belt 2. The vines being fed to the endless belt 2 are carried forward'from thesamc beneath the spring like rejections 7 and the peanuts are separated from the vines in passing between said projections. The vines being brought tothe forward end of the machine are delivered oil' of the end of the endless belt 2 while the peanuts with the stems and dirt adhering thereto are carried on to an endless belt 11 which maybe made of cotton'cloth and are carried by the endless belt 11 which moves in the opposite direction to the belt 2, theendless belt 11 being mounted on a pulley 12 atone end and on a'pulley'13 at the other end which is mounted omth'e shaft of the toothed pulley 3. Should any ot the vines not be carried off of the endless belt 2 they will be caught up by the rollers 14 located adjacent to the 3 and will be carried there- Located beneath the toothed pulley 3 is an endless belt 15 mounted on pulleys 16 and the peanuts and dirt carried by the plate ll are delivered on to the endless belt l5 and the trash is carried to the passage 4Way 17 of the hopper shaped casing 18 by means of a suction fan 19 located in the casing 20 opening into the hopper shaped casing 18.V The peanuts and heavier matter fall into the inclined chute 21 While the lighter stuit' is sucked into the casing 18 by means of the fan 19 and is drawn down by means of the fan 22 in the casing 23 at the apex ot' the casing 18 into the depending having a lateral opening through which the trash is discharged. y

' The casing 25 is provided with a vertical passage way 26, open at its upper end and located at a spaced distance from the opening of the passage way 27 leading from the fan casing 20. By means of this construction the air passing downward through the passage Way 27 into the passage Way 26 will not be so strong as to drive the collected matter in the casing 25 through the assage Way 24 into the casing 18. The inclined chute 2l projects into the open end of a rotary cylinder' formed in two Vsections 28 and 29, the section 28 being formed with small apertures 30 in its peri hery, and the section 29 being formed wit larger apertures 31 in its periphery.

The rotary cylinder is mounted on a s lait 32 having its bearings in uprivhts 33 and has mounted upon it outside o one end of the cylinder a fan 34, the leaves ofwhich m'ovc through a gutter 35'. The peanuts having been delivered into the rotary cylinder from the inclined shaft 2l are rolled and tunbled about in the sections of the rotary cylinder and the dirt drops through the perforations 30 in the first section oi' the cylinder while the larger trash and remaining dirt drops through the larger perforations 31 in the second section of the cylinders, the dirt beingremoved from the peanuts by attrition in the cylinder thereby cleanngthe peanuts. The stems f the pea nuts protruding through the pgrforations as the cylinder rotates are cut off by means ofsteel edged blades 36 located in sockets 37 in a curved support 38 mountedon brackcts 39 adjacent to the peri hery of the cylinder, said knives 36 eing yieldingly mounted on springs 40 so as to be held y yielding pressure against the periphery of the cylinder. It will be seen thatby means of this construction as the cylinder rotates the peanut stems projecting through the apertures in its 4peri hery will Vbe cut ott' by the knives 36. T e peanuts, now being separated from the trash,V the stems and dirt, are fed over into the trough 35 and Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by' addressing conveyed by the fan 34 out of the trough into suitable receptacles.

What I claim is l. In a machine of the character described, an endless belt having transverse rows of picker picker pins located above said endless belt and coperating with the'picker pins onV the endless belt, a second endless belt located Within the first named endless belt and movable in the opposite direction, a third endless belt locatedfadjacent to one end of the second' named belt and adapted to receive the peanuts Vseparated from the vines.

2. In a machine of the character described, an endless belt having transverse rows of picker pins, transverse rows of picker pins located above said endless belt, and coperating with the picker pins on the endless belt, a second endless belt located within the first named endless belt and movable in the opposite direction, a third endless belt located adjacent to one end of the second named endless belt for receiving ejeanuts separated from the vines,anl1nclm chute adjacent to one end of said last named belt.

3. In a machine4 of the character described, an endless belt having transverse rows of picker pins, transverse rows of picker pins, and lon 'tudinal undulating Wires located above sai endless belt and cooperating with the picker pins thereon In testimony whereof I Vhereunto aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS MILICUT LILLISTON.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM MAHONE CRUMPEN, RUTH Es'rnLLn HOWELL.

the Uommilsloner of Intenta,

Washington, D. C.

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